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education policy so you can consider it to be educational drone warfare where the students are turning into the drones. and that's ridiculous it's very true yeah the rebranding effort i mean i guess it just goes on every single facet of his visitation it seems like there's so much frustration about the public education system that people are pushing for the only alternative that they hear about which of course is this privatization what is the danger of treating education like a commodity though. well then students become a commodity. i mean education educational system and our communities are how we form young people and if we standardized tests we standardized our children i know that sort of. a slogan more than anything but as a community college professor i'm not just a researcher i mean i'm on the ground i just got out of a class ten minutes ago working with many of my students failed the standardized test high school proficiency test numerous times and they had very little exposure to critical thinking and very little exposure to an educational system that was enjoyable or it val
education policy so you can consider it to be educational drone warfare where the students are turning into the drones. and that's ridiculous it's very true yeah the rebranding effort i mean i guess it just goes on every single facet of his visitation it seems like there's so much frustration about the public education system that people are pushing for the only alternative that they hear about which of course is this privatization what is the danger of treating education like a commodity...
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education policy so you can consider it to be educational drone warfare where the students are turning into the drones but that's ridiculous it's very true yeah the rebranding effort i mean i guess it just goes on every single facet of his visitation it seems like there's so much frustration about the public education system that people are pushing for the only alternative that they hear about which of course is this privatization what is the danger of treating education like a commodity though. well then students become a commodity. i mean education educational system and our communities are how we form young people and if we standardized tests we've standardized our children i know that sort of. slogan more than anything but as a community college professor i'm not just a researcher i mean i'm on the ground i just got out of a class ten minutes ago working with many of my students failed standardized test a high school proficiency test numerous times and they had very little exposure to critical thinking and very little exposure to an educational system that was enjoyable or it value
education policy so you can consider it to be educational drone warfare where the students are turning into the drones but that's ridiculous it's very true yeah the rebranding effort i mean i guess it just goes on every single facet of his visitation it seems like there's so much frustration about the public education system that people are pushing for the only alternative that they hear about which of course is this privatization what is the danger of treating education like a commodity...
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important education reforms. these elements created the foundation of the progress of the last two years, progress that every person from a vatican be proud of. on my last appearance is preceded by decline. but parents before you tonight region my parents has been preceded by growth. we are emerging from the worst economic crisis of regeneration. the remains unacceptably high, our unemployment rate is lower than it has been in over three years. it is falling faster than almost every other states in the nation. state revenues are growing again. our economy is growing again. the last 24 months of nevada businesses have created almost 30,000 new jobs. last year said been a success story. it is undeniably on track. tonight i can confidently report to the people of nevada that the state of our state grows stronger every day. now stand at the threshold of another legislative session fell shape the future of our great state. we must make some immediate decisions and of the present issues of the day. a challenge is helpi
important education reforms. these elements created the foundation of the progress of the last two years, progress that every person from a vatican be proud of. on my last appearance is preceded by decline. but parents before you tonight region my parents has been preceded by growth. we are emerging from the worst economic crisis of regeneration. the remains unacceptably high, our unemployment rate is lower than it has been in over three years. it is falling faster than almost every other...
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last, we have katie from the education trust, and in 1990, founded the education trust as an advocacy organization focusing on increasing academic achievement for all students at all levels. prior to that, served as executive vice president for the chirp's defense fund, the nation's largest children's advocacy organization, innative -- a native from california, masters degree from the university of california at burke. we welcome you here. i read the testimonies, and i, again, they will be made part of the record in the entirety, and we'll start with mr. holiday, and if you go over, i don't get nervous, but if it goes over, i'll wave a pencil or something like that. welcome, and please proceed. >> thank you, and i apologize in advance if my voice cracks. i've been yelling at too many kentucky ball games lately, but we'll try to get through. thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak to the committee today about kentucky's esea flexibility waiver. i'm honored to explain to you how we are best serving the students in kentucky. first, though, let me be clear that kentucky and my
last, we have katie from the education trust, and in 1990, founded the education trust as an advocacy organization focusing on increasing academic achievement for all students at all levels. prior to that, served as executive vice president for the chirp's defense fund, the nation's largest children's advocacy organization, innative -- a native from california, masters degree from the university of california at burke. we welcome you here. i read the testimonies, and i, again, they will be made...
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in celebration of sfusd's early education department's 70th anniversary whereas sfusd early education department's preschool programs were established in 1943 by president franklin eleanor roosevelt work projects administration to provide the city's families with care and education for preschool age children during world war ii. whereas eed began with four sites. today eed has grown to 43 sites that serve over 4,000 students including infants, toddlers, preschool opportunities, transitional kindergarten, other students and tk as well as fifth grade students during non school hours. over 90% receive completely free or subsidized care based on their family income and more than 75% of families served a language other than english at home. whereas sfusd's strategic plan contains three main goals: access and equity, student achievement and accountability, and calls out the achievement gap as one of the greatest civil rights issues facing the district. whereas decades of research has shown that providing children with early education opportunities can have significant positive impact on the
in celebration of sfusd's early education department's 70th anniversary whereas sfusd early education department's preschool programs were established in 1943 by president franklin eleanor roosevelt work projects administration to provide the city's families with care and education for preschool age children during world war ii. whereas eed began with four sites. today eed has grown to 43 sites that serve over 4,000 students including infants, toddlers, preschool opportunities, transitional...
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we need to increase the emphasis on stem education. science, technology, engineering and math are just as important to the next generation as the three r's were to my generation. they are the essential tools for success in this new economy. we need to invest more where we get the biggest return, in quality early learning programs. [applause] we need a system that aligns from early learning to k-12 to our universities. accountability must be present at every level. we should continue the progress we are making on improving the teacher and principal evaluation system, and make it a significant part of personnel decisions. and yes we need to meet the funding obligations set out by the mccleary decision, but we cannot continue to allow funding debates to mask deeper problems in our schools that demand innovation and reform. i want us to be able to look our children in the eyes, knowing that we honored our commitment to provide them a world-class education. through systemic, sustainable reform of our schools. not through gimmicks or blind a
we need to increase the emphasis on stem education. science, technology, engineering and math are just as important to the next generation as the three r's were to my generation. they are the essential tools for success in this new economy. we need to invest more where we get the biggest return, in quality early learning programs. [applause] we need a system that aligns from early learning to k-12 to our universities. accountability must be present at every level. we should continue the...
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i mean education educational system and our communities are how we form young people and if we standardized tests we've standardized our children i know that sort of. slogan more than anything but as a community college professor i'm not just a researcher i mean i'm on the ground i just got out of a class ten minutes ago working with many of my students failed standardized test high school proficiency test numerous times and they had very little exposure to critical thinking and very little exposure to an educational system that was enjoyable or it valued the sort of complicated lives we have so the danger is is that the kids could get fit into this standardized mold or like many other students i have now they're just simply shut down and disenfranchised from the educational system and from opportunity so again the danger of commodifying education in the one hand we can modify our children on the other hand we open up education to the marketplace and to corruption and there are many cases i could cite specifically about once the schools are given to private and all sorts of nefarious corrup
i mean education educational system and our communities are how we form young people and if we standardized tests we've standardized our children i know that sort of. slogan more than anything but as a community college professor i'm not just a researcher i mean i'm on the ground i just got out of a class ten minutes ago working with many of my students failed standardized test high school proficiency test numerous times and they had very little exposure to critical thinking and very little...
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we know an educated workforce is the foundation for a prosperous economy. so let's commit to increasing the number of montana adults with a post-secondary degree or professional certificate to at least 60% over the next decade. given that we are now at about 40%, this is an ambitious goal. the future of this state will be shaped by whether we rise to meet it, and i have asked the commissioner of higher education to join me in committing to this goal. and i ask the same of you, because we can't do this without you. i have included proposals in this budget that move us in this direction. offering college classes to more high school students will help them recognize that higher education is within their reach and will give them a jump start on earning college credits. that's why i am asking that you help our two-year colleges expand and enhance dual credit programs. if a student starts at dillon they shouldn't have to reapply and get different financial aid packages if they choose to take classes at or transfer to butte. we can make it easier for students by c
we know an educated workforce is the foundation for a prosperous economy. so let's commit to increasing the number of montana adults with a post-secondary degree or professional certificate to at least 60% over the next decade. given that we are now at about 40%, this is an ambitious goal. the future of this state will be shaped by whether we rise to meet it, and i have asked the commissioner of higher education to join me in committing to this goal. and i ask the same of you, because we can't...
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the gap for a lot of children's education. now we have over 10 education sites in our school district including students and kindergartner schools. my daughter was at the top and other student were at the top in my district so i know the staff does a great job >> san francisco unified is one of the largest providers in southern california and one of the providers in the state that invests in preschool education. and many educational study aids supervisor norman yee knows that qualify school programs supports our children's social and emotional development. they add to social justice throughout our community as well. we also want to declare this coming friday the date we'll be celebrating at a cafe with some people and february 9th will be declared if we vote on it it today. at this moment i'd like to invite our education people to say a few words >> thank you and thank you supervisors and everyone else. we're very honored that you took the time and i want to give a special thanks to supervisor yee. he helped me to see the work
the gap for a lot of children's education. now we have over 10 education sites in our school district including students and kindergartner schools. my daughter was at the top and other student were at the top in my district so i know the staff does a great job >> san francisco unified is one of the largest providers in southern california and one of the providers in the state that invests in preschool education. and many educational study aids supervisor norman yee knows that qualify...
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why is girls education so important? i've gone to the extent now where i say you can drop bombs and build roads or put in electricity but until the girls are implicated, society won't change. several global studies show if you educate a girl to fifth grade level it does three things. reduce infant mortality, population explosion reduction and improve the quality of life and health. if your interested you can look up a guy called, well he wrote a book called development is freedom. it's a fat book. in the 60's another writer had the very foresite to see that girls education would be a process to bring about stabilization of population. he wrote a book called the poverty curve and jeffery sacks wrote the end of poverty in bangladesh a great example, they introduced 35 years ago to do a campaign to get all women and men or boys literate. it was 22% and today it's more than 75 percent if you look at a demographic curve with the population, you can see it's just starting to reach an apex in bangladesh. they're way ahead of in
why is girls education so important? i've gone to the extent now where i say you can drop bombs and build roads or put in electricity but until the girls are implicated, society won't change. several global studies show if you educate a girl to fifth grade level it does three things. reduce infant mortality, population explosion reduction and improve the quality of life and health. if your interested you can look up a guy called, well he wrote a book called development is freedom. it's a fat...
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america, we see education more as a social issue. it is not something we are investing in to fix the economy. it is something that gets cut when the budget times are tough. >> is a solution really money? america spends more per child on its education and other countries. >> is not an issue of how much wheat we are spending -- how much we are spending. over the last 20, 30 years we have tripled the amount of money we're spending per child on public education, and yet the results have remained stagnant. part of the problem is that we in the u.s. i don't think are using our money wisely or effectively. >> then you start getting into extreme political territory with people having very different views on how that money should be spent. >> right. this is one of the things that we push. transparency with budgets. so that everyone can see where our schools, districts, state's spending education dollars and what kind of return on investment are those dollars getting. if we were able to look at the data from that perspective, then we would hav
america, we see education more as a social issue. it is not something we are investing in to fix the economy. it is something that gets cut when the budget times are tough. >> is a solution really money? america spends more per child on its education and other countries. >> is not an issue of how much wheat we are spending -- how much we are spending. over the last 20, 30 years we have tripled the amount of money we're spending per child on public education, and yet the results have...
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support for education is increased. and nevadans will continue to benefit from the overarching policy of this administration throughout this economic down turn. that is, we cannot cut our way out, we cannot tax our way out, we can only grow our way out. [applause] as nevada prepares to celebrate 150 years of statehood, we must also consider how far we have come and prepare for what lies ahead. 2014 is not just the anniversary of nevada's statehood. it also marks the centennial year of the approval of women's suffrage in our state. nevada gave women the right to vote in 1914, five years before the rest of the nation adopted the 19th amendment in 1919. [applause] it is my hope that the celebration of women's suffrage and the commemoration of nevada's 150th birthday will provide a joint platform of examining who we are and who we can be. nevadans are rightfully proud of their history. we are also cognizant of the world around us. and we are ever mindful of those students whose faces inspire us to plan big for a bright futu
support for education is increased. and nevadans will continue to benefit from the overarching policy of this administration throughout this economic down turn. that is, we cannot cut our way out, we cannot tax our way out, we can only grow our way out. [applause] as nevada prepares to celebrate 150 years of statehood, we must also consider how far we have come and prepare for what lies ahead. 2014 is not just the anniversary of nevada's statehood. it also marks the centennial year of the...
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the educators, make sure they receive the education and understand that relationships are as important as the classroom can urriculum, especially at the secondary level, continue to hammer out policies that are not so punitive but restore we want to connect to correct. we don't want to punish. we often move kids from one environment it another but it doesn't help them make right and it doesn't help others. this is a systemic problem, it's not going to go away. but we can begin and we are, the people on this panel, those of you in this room, we're taking incremental steps. but one of the things we have to do is keep organizing ourselves and understanding the coordinated integrated way so services aren't bolted on, added on and become just a one and done in too many schools. it's got to be really embraced as what we call a whole school climate framework, a whole school climate improvement plan. and when we embrace that, everybody can come to the table and take what can i do? each one teach one, each one reach one, we change policy, we change practices, we change values. there is a map, t
the educators, make sure they receive the education and understand that relationships are as important as the classroom can urriculum, especially at the secondary level, continue to hammer out policies that are not so punitive but restore we want to connect to correct. we don't want to punish. we often move kids from one environment it another but it doesn't help them make right and it doesn't help others. this is a systemic problem, it's not going to go away. but we can begin and we are, the...
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before she joined the department of education she was vice president of the education trust in washington, dc and was the founding executive of education trust west in oakland. in these positions she advocated for public school students in california, focusing on achievement and opportunity gaps, improving can urriculum and instructional quality and ensuring quality education for everybody. she served as an advisor on education issues on a number of private ipbs institutions, she is a teacher, a lawyer, and a very influential voice on all policy matters. she was also passionate about ending this issue of bullying and bringing everyone together to stop this disturbing trend so please welcome assistant secretary for civil rights, ruslyn lee. as i said, our moderator is not always our lieutenant governor, of course he needs to introduction -- no, i get to say something. i get to say something. as everyone in this room knows, youngest mayor in 100 years, right? youngest mayor in 100 years when he was elected 10 years ago and he has remained an effective and visionary leader for everyone. mayo
before she joined the department of education she was vice president of the education trust in washington, dc and was the founding executive of education trust west in oakland. in these positions she advocated for public school students in california, focusing on achievement and opportunity gaps, improving can urriculum and instructional quality and ensuring quality education for everybody. she served as an advisor on education issues on a number of private ipbs institutions, she is a teacher,...
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it supports over 100,000 jobs educating our children. we want to improve public education and to continue to build new schools. it accelerates the transition from chalks and textbooks in our classrooms with ipads and smart boards and 21st century digital learning tools. your vote will accelerate those innovations. once again, it holds down the costs of college tuition. this is only possible with fiscal responsibility and a balanced approach. the budget before you saves the guidelines. it increases our rainy day funds and our cash reserves. it protects our aaa rating. it brings our total spending cuts to 3.8 million dollars over the life of this administration. these are the choices that enable us to invest in a stronger and better future. it is a future that we all prefer for our children. more job creation, more opportunity for a stronger and growing middle class. there are stories with a common theme. we are doing today by an entrepreneur. he reached out to colleges and professors asking for lab space. 199 turned him down. he went on t
it supports over 100,000 jobs educating our children. we want to improve public education and to continue to build new schools. it accelerates the transition from chalks and textbooks in our classrooms with ipads and smart boards and 21st century digital learning tools. your vote will accelerate those innovations. once again, it holds down the costs of college tuition. this is only possible with fiscal responsibility and a balanced approach. the budget before you saves the guidelines. it...
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we're nonprofit and we do both education and advocacy and on the education end we develop be curriculum and the curriculum is used widely
we're nonprofit and we do both education and advocacy and on the education end we develop be curriculum and the curriculum is used widely
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we're nonprofit and we do both education and advocacy and on the education end we develop be curriculum and the curriculum is used widely across the country. it's in every state in the country and in canada and 70 countries around the world and programs we're familiar with is second step and i am hearing some nods and we have a
we're nonprofit and we do both education and advocacy and on the education end we develop be curriculum and the curriculum is used widely across the country. it's in every state in the country and in canada and 70 countries around the world and programs we're familiar with is second step and i am hearing some nods and we have a
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and so i think that we have a lot of educating to do. in my office we do a lot of cyber bullying training in our schools and it's amazing how much access some kids have to the internet at a really young age. they have iphones. they're on the internet. they have or smartphones. they have computers in the bedroom and parent it is never over the shoulder to see what is going online. there is a lot of unrestricted access to the internet and the internet has put it on another level and one push of a button and everybody in the school will have a picture or hear it and the outcome of that is -- it would be not just reconciling relationships or restorative justice or some other way between two or three or four people but now you have a whole study body that has been tempered or tainted with something that goes against the individual who was a target of that, so the internet working more strongly with the partners and the providers of the internet and there is awareness and education, but back to the student assemblies that we do it is amazing a
and so i think that we have a lot of educating to do. in my office we do a lot of cyber bullying training in our schools and it's amazing how much access some kids have to the internet at a really young age. they have iphones. they're on the internet. they have or smartphones. they have computers in the bedroom and parent it is never over the shoulder to see what is going online. there is a lot of unrestricted access to the internet and the internet has put it on another level and one push of a...
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let's talk about education. it would be wrong to have a discussion about education without remembering the victims of the tragedy as sandy hook elementary school. please join me in a moment of silence. thank you. in south carolina we have done some useful things on education in the last couple of years. we reaffirm our commitment to charter schools. we have invested innovation with a focus on rural and urban areas with programs like teach for america. we have pushed the government for more flexibility to evaluate our schools. we have seen some progress. our state still has a long way to go. there is no sure pat out of poverty than having an education. having a way we did well educated work force is a real factor in having more jobs to our state. i know there are some strong choice bill's letter making their way to the general assembly. i support school choice. it will be good for families to make their own decisions. that should happen a long time ago. i never been one that believes choice is the only way to imp
let's talk about education. it would be wrong to have a discussion about education without remembering the victims of the tragedy as sandy hook elementary school. please join me in a moment of silence. thank you. in south carolina we have done some useful things on education in the last couple of years. we reaffirm our commitment to charter schools. we have invested innovation with a focus on rural and urban areas with programs like teach for america. we have pushed the government for more...
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we've got to educate everybody using our streets. so, we're choosing today in the middle of the beginning of our holiday season with everybody's attention on having great fun, having wonderful events, having serious sales that allow people to shop, this is where the consciousness has to be risen. and, so, in light of this, we picked this day and this time and this area of year to make this announcement that we have a pedestrian strategy that's going on, a serious one. we're jointly doing it with the collaboration of all the different departments. we have asked and part of the strategy will be our police department, really doing a lot more enforcement strategically in all the areas that we need to, with not only stops, not only enforcement and ticketing, but a serious effort to remind people that these are going to be spots where we are going to pay a lot more attention. we have the mta, with ed's leadership and his staff, parking and traffic and others, working to do some of the physical improvements that remind everybody that we emp
we've got to educate everybody using our streets. so, we're choosing today in the middle of the beginning of our holiday season with everybody's attention on having great fun, having wonderful events, having serious sales that allow people to shop, this is where the consciousness has to be risen. and, so, in light of this, we picked this day and this time and this area of year to make this announcement that we have a pedestrian strategy that's going on, a serious one. we're jointly doing it...
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unfortunately, the cost of the higher education continues to rise for private, public and for profit community colleges thought this country and students and families in san francisco are right now in the ross pros of making very important decisions about their future. so it is critical that we as a city increase the awareness about financial aid and how the process worgz and specifically the free application for federal student aid, the f a f s a application, which if completed will ensure that student have access to the many reresource available to them and it helps student but it helps us all because it ensures that they get the education that they need for the future. by declaring financial aid awareness week my hope is that we will continue to bring attention to the critical role that financial assistance place not only in san francisco but throughout the country in making financial education available to these student. from february fourth through the 10th the mission economic development agency n e va in my district in partnership with the san francisco unified school district
unfortunately, the cost of the higher education continues to rise for private, public and for profit community colleges thought this country and students and families in san francisco are right now in the ross pros of making very important decisions about their future. so it is critical that we as a city increase the awareness about financial aid and how the process worgz and specifically the free application for federal student aid, the f a f s a application, which if completed will ensure...
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the higher education a women has the more likely her son is to go on with education rather than getting into violence and drugs and certainly she won't condone her son getting into a gang or drugs. i've sometimes been criticized for that because they say all the 911 hijackers were educated and had university degrees and that certainly is true. but nobody botherd to check they're mothers and nearly all of them were i late rate an illiterate. exciting news and then i have to unfortunately talk to you about negative news. i've been in perhaps 120 cities over the past 14 months talking to maybe 50,000 people and i ask this question most places i go and i'll ask you today. how many of you are aware of the fact in afghanistan today, there's 5 point 2 million children going to school and 1 point 8 million of those are female and in 2000 there was only 8 hundred 6,000 kids in school. how many of you know that fact? one, two, you? so that makes my total now - i've counted 21 people in america. to me that's single most incredible inspiring news to come out of that country. that alone is justifica
the higher education a women has the more likely her son is to go on with education rather than getting into violence and drugs and certainly she won't condone her son getting into a gang or drugs. i've sometimes been criticized for that because they say all the 911 hijackers were educated and had university degrees and that certainly is true. but nobody botherd to check they're mothers and nearly all of them were i late rate an illiterate. exciting news and then i have to unfortunately talk to...
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i mean education educational system and our communities are how we form young people and if we standardized tests we standardized our children i know that sort of. a slogan more than anything but as a community college professor i'm not just a researcher i mean i'm on the ground i just got out of a class ten minutes ago working with many of my students failed the standardized test high school proficiency test numerous times and they had very little exposure to critical thinking and very little exposure to an educational system that was enjoyable or it valued the sort of complicated lives we have so the danger is is that the kids get fit into this standardized mold or like many other students i have now they're just simply shut down and disenfranchised from the educational system and from opportunity so again the danger of commodifying education on the one hand we can modify our children on the other hand we open up education to the marketplace and to corruption and there are many cases i could cite specifically about once the schools are giving to private hands all sorts of nefarious corrup
i mean education educational system and our communities are how we form young people and if we standardized tests we standardized our children i know that sort of. a slogan more than anything but as a community college professor i'm not just a researcher i mean i'm on the ground i just got out of a class ten minutes ago working with many of my students failed the standardized test high school proficiency test numerous times and they had very little exposure to critical thinking and very little...
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that's what we naed to educate ourselves on. as i've said and if i have identified all the different players, it does take a village to raise our kids. it does require us to understand not only what happens in the classroom, what happens on the school grounds, what happens in programs that we all cherish so much on and off our school sites, it's online and it's off-line that we also have to concern ourselves with. it is with kids that have both parents and kids without the parents at home that it's happening. we need to embrace a full court program on this because the numbers tell us and dictate to us that we have to have this high level strong fierce collaboration to end bullying and to make sure it doesn't proceed into its worst stages. and so i want to just thank everyone for this collaboration, i know our human rights commission, theresa, is here, i know commissioner is here as well and all of the bay area to work together to utilize the resources that our justice department is offering. their guidance and leadership as well
that's what we naed to educate ourselves on. as i've said and if i have identified all the different players, it does take a village to raise our kids. it does require us to understand not only what happens in the classroom, what happens on the school grounds, what happens in programs that we all cherish so much on and off our school sites, it's online and it's off-line that we also have to concern ourselves with. it is with kids that have both parents and kids without the parents at home that...
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i don't understand why you guys have all this education together. you guys can't get it right. put the degrees together. put the degrees aside. be a person. think about the children, their safety. you heard one person come in here screaming. do you care? two minutes? two minutes for what? all of the pain and suffering we experience everyday. think about the time -- >> please wrap disblup think about the pain and suffering we experience on a daily basis, not two minutes. think of the children. two minutes. think of the children. >> ma'am your time is up. next speaker please. >> [inaudible] >> next speaker please. >> hello. my name is brenda balls. i'm the seiu 1021 member and a chapter president of san francisco general and i am supporting one of our members, mr. lu. i think what was done to them and what was done to the security guard is terrible. it goes against everything that is union and this is a union town whether people like it or not. it is. and you can't abuse employees and there shouldn't be accepted from anybody including the school district and so the other issue th
i don't understand why you guys have all this education together. you guys can't get it right. put the degrees together. put the degrees aside. be a person. think about the children, their safety. you heard one person come in here screaming. do you care? two minutes? two minutes for what? all of the pain and suffering we experience everyday. think about the time -- >> please wrap disblup think about the pain and suffering we experience on a daily basis, not two minutes. think of the...
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we're not going out and educating businesses right now. the likelihood you'll by looking at the bigger side of our business >> director i believe if more than your business is one second for it will be taxed at a different rate and i make everything i sell. so i'm making it and selling it. right but you're also whole sailing >> yeah, but wholesale and retail are in the same bracket. by definition the - so i look like a retailer but i'm a manufacturer if you proportion the dollars >> well, is your margin bigger than air manufacturing costs it will be interesting to find out how they find this. >> look by definition your whole sailing it and selling it. >> not every manufacture will have a manufacturer presence. >> yeah, so this is - anyway pointing out. >> again we're not going out and promoting this yet base we're still talking about this and there will be an awe apportionment but they'll be some guidelines on. >> i have a question. saying there is a small business exemption for gross receipts less than one million but on the second page i
we're not going out and educating businesses right now. the likelihood you'll by looking at the bigger side of our business >> director i believe if more than your business is one second for it will be taxed at a different rate and i make everything i sell. so i'm making it and selling it. right but you're also whole sailing >> yeah, but wholesale and retail are in the same bracket. by definition the - so i look like a retailer but i'm a manufacturer if you proportion the dollars...
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the gap for a lot of children's education. now we have over 10 education sites in our school district including students and kindergartner schools. my daughter was at the top and other student were at the top in my district so i know the staff does a great job >> san francisco unified is one of the largest providers in southern california and one of the providers in the state that invests in preschool education. and many
the gap for a lot of children's education. now we have over 10 education sites in our school district including students and kindergartner schools. my daughter was at the top and other student were at the top in my district so i know the staff does a great job >> san francisco unified is one of the largest providers in southern california and one of the providers in the state that invests in preschool education. and many
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we're going to revolutionize education. but it may take a while for all the pieces to come together. maybe five years. our foundation is the biggest backer of these activities. putting course videos online and mit open course and others almost nobody used that because they would get confused, they would get stuck and that was the problem with the course. and they wouldn't get the degree. and today that degree is what the employer values. so, the number of people who take hard courses where there's not a degree benefit for them, that's pretty small. the elite students who have been the early consumers of these things even they have had pretty high dropout rates. so, but, enough people are using these things that we're in a process where they're just going to get better and better. so, i am, i am very enthused about what's in the years ahead. >> what about the institutional blockages that people talk about some of the education issues. the teacher unions and things. how big a problem is that? do you think if you really could
we're going to revolutionize education. but it may take a while for all the pieces to come together. maybe five years. our foundation is the biggest backer of these activities. putting course videos online and mit open course and others almost nobody used that because they would get confused, they would get stuck and that was the problem with the course. and they wouldn't get the degree. and today that degree is what the employer values. so, the number of people who take hard courses where...
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politician. >> chairman of education for d.c. i gave the school system 300 million new dollars teachers got more money to educate your kids and test scores went down. they had to grow the bureaucracy. >> and then they found that did not even get school supplies. >> to walk-in to see there were no books in the library , kids didn't have supplies than the following week i visited the warehouse of the school district there were boxes and boxes of books and scissors and glue. john: why? >> exactly. a complete and utter sense of dysfunction and lack of accountability. >> they call it the blob like jabba the hut can not be budged, the teachers' union, janitor's union, politicians, a school board bureaucrats if you make a change the blob says we don't have that. we have requisitioned to sign off it is crazy. john: both union leaders escaped the bureaucracy. john: you went to private schools. >> it made me feel i better do good or else. john: i will confront the union bosses when i return. mike and other people have the choice they had?
politician. >> chairman of education for d.c. i gave the school system 300 million new dollars teachers got more money to educate your kids and test scores went down. they had to grow the bureaucracy. >> and then they found that did not even get school supplies. >> to walk-in to see there were no books in the library , kids didn't have supplies than the following week i visited the warehouse of the school district there were boxes and boxes of books and scissors and glue....